Big data Telematics towards Usage based Insurance This workshop (May 4 2017) is a meeting to discuss innovation in telematics from the perspective of insurers and manufacturers, as well as the design of public policies aimed to reduce accidents on the road. For more information, see the preliminary programme. Link to the
Tim gave a seminar on "Modeling and forecasting mortality with economic growth: a multi-population approach". He reviewed the existing literature on mortality modeling of multiple populations, which focuses mainly on extrapolating the past mortality trends and summarizes these trends by one or more common latent factors. In his paper, they propose a multi-population stochastic mortality
Session outline The event was opened by Mercedes Sanz, chair of Insurance and Pensions in Fundacion Mapfre. After, Gregorio Gil de Rozas, president of the Institute of Spanish Actuaries-IAE, spoke about the legal protection of the actuarial profession in Spain. Then, Eduardo Sánchez, general assistant director of actuarial function in Mapfre, spoke about the opportunities
Nov. 16 2016: SCOR Iberian award to "The telematics revolution. How to price automobile insurance per kilometre driven?" by Jean-Philippe Boucher, Steven Coté (both from UQÀM, Québec) and Montserrat Guillen, Ana M. Pérez-Marin (UB Riskcenter) . The prize was given by the jury to the contribution to the innovation in risk and insurance products in a new digital
Oct. 6 2016: The Spanish Association of Risk Managers hold a workshop at UB on "Post Brexit forum: what the risks?" with participants from over 30 uinternational companies based in Barcelona. The speakers were D. José Mª Areliza, Profess and Chairholder of the Jean Monnet Chair – ESADE and D. Francesc Granell Trías, Emeritus Professor of International
Sep. 29 2016: During the annual dinner of Fundació Edad&Vida, the researcher of UB Riskcenter received the prize for a study on "Strategies for Managing Savings after Retirement". This analysis will consider pay-out schemes around the world. Comparisons will be made for Spain, USA, Japan, Latinamerican and European countries. One of the outputs is the design of personalized guides to assess retired
Arthur Charpentier (Université du Québec, Université de Rennes I) talks on big data and predictive modeling for actuarial science and risk management The lecture can be followed via streaming. A limited number of seats is available at UB (Sala de graus) for interested participants. Contact: ealaminos@ub.edu
The Workshop on Economic Assessment on Bodily Injuries in Motor Claims was held as part of the Barcelona Insurance and Risk Management Summer School 2015, organized by Riskcenter at UB. More than 40 participants attended the sessions on law reforms in Spain. More information can be provided about the event.
Jul. 17 2015: Arelly Ornelas, PhD in Statistics, defended her thesis on mortality and longevity for insured populations in Mexico. External members of the jury were Prof. Ana Debon (UPV) and Prof. Monica Becue (UPC). She proposed ways to address unisex lifetables. Related implementations in R can be found here .
Jaume Belles-Sampera, PhD in Business, defended his thesis on quantitative risk assessment, aggregation functions and capital allocation problems. External members of the jury were Prof. Jose Maria Sarabia (Univ. Cantabria), Prof. Jan Dhaene (Univ. Leuven, KUL) and Prof. Andreas Tsanakas (City University London). He proposed ways to identify attitudes in new risk measures. Implementations in
